Liv Dywan
QA Automation Tool Developer
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
Summary
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RockstarLiv Dywan is a seasoned QA automation tool developer with 18 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining test infrastructure and backend systems, currently driving openQA feature development and production reliability at SUSE. Self-taught and pragmatic, she blends test automation, backend engineering and DevOps—having contributed to prominent open-source projects like openQA, os-autoinst and Canonical’s snapcraft—where she improved container builds, cross-compilation workflows and robust error handling. Comfortable across C++, Python and QA tooling, she has a track record of making developer and QA workflows more productive, plus experience as a SCRUM master and backup team lead. A free-software enthusiast based in the Cologne–Bonn region, she balances rigorous engineering with a curious, experiment-first approach to problem solving.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, German, Spanish, French
Github Skills (31)
lxd10
docker10
python10
crossbuild10
back-end-development10
testing10
c1110
perl10
dockers10
opensuse10
glib10
c1710
snapcraft10
autoit10
yaml10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
os-autoinst/os-autoinst
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
OS-level test automation
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:491 reviews, 58 commits, 91 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Liv primarily contributed to the test automation aspects of the `os-autoinst/os-autoinst` repository. Their work focused on enhancing the backend functionality, specifically adding features for state management during backend termination. They consistently implemented improvements across different files to use diagnostic messaging within the `bmwqemu` namespace, ensuring consistency throughout the codebase. The user also addressed deprecation warnings related to timeout settings within the test environment.
test-automationperltest-executionvirtualization
os-autoinst/openQA
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
openQA web-frontend, scheduler and tools.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1434 reviews, 359 commits, 490 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Liv primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the openQA project, particularly concerning job templates. They implemented features for YAML-based job template management, including creating, updating, and expanding templates. They also focused on test automation by developing tests for the new YAML features and fixing issues in audit logs.
web-frontendperltestingtest-automationtest-scheduling
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